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Harnessing the Horsepower of Mules on the Western Front
Despite advancements in railway technology, animal haulage was still in heavy use. Horses, mules and even men hauled supplies within trench tramways. Mules were preferred over horses: they were ...
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Brigadier General Raymond Lionel Leane
Raymond Leane was a member of one of Australia's most well-known military families and served with distinction in the First World War. He was born on 12 July 1878 at Prospect, South Australia. After ...
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New in the Second World War Galleries
This website contains war-related material, including images which some people may find confronting and disturbing.
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Lieutenant General Leslie James Morshead
Leslie Morshead won fame as the defender of Tobruk during the Second World War and is among the most renowned Australian divisional commanders of that war. He was born at Ballarat in Victoria on 18 ...
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Major General (retired) Rupert Major Downes
Rupert Downes was born at Mitcham, South Australia, on 10 February 1885, the son of Major General Francis Downes, a Crimean War veteran. Rupert studied medicine at Ormond College in Melbourne, where ...
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METIS and Monash – An Inside Look into the Memorial’s Map Digitisation Project
The Memorial is currently digitising over 300 First World War maps that form part of the Sir John Monash Collection ...
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The United States Army in World War 1 [electronic resource]
Note System requirements for IBM. 386 or higher IBM compatible PC; 4MB RAM; Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT or later; hard drive with a minimum of 6MB free space : ISO 9660 CD-ROM drive; ...
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First World War Nominal Roll William Alexander Meldrum
Show JPG document of AWM133 36 - Nominal roll of Australian Imperial Force who left Australia for service abroad, 1914-18 War: McMillan-Anderson R G - Milligan D J (437.2 KB JPG) (file) ...
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Adelaide Second World War pilot honoured at Australian War Memorial
The Australian War Memorial in Canberra will commemorate the service and sacrifice of Adelaide resident Pilot Officer Harold William Bird at the Last Post Ceremony on Monday 13 January 2025. “Harold ...
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Australian fatalities at Gallipoli
*A revised estimate, dated January 26, 1919, in the same book gives the total number of Australians killed as 8,709. This larger figure is the accepted official estimate of the total number killed. In ...
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Diary of an Anzac: a Gallipoli perspective
Guide your students through the Gallipoli campaign from the perspective of an everyday Anzac, following day-by-day the diary of H.V. Reynolds. An Australian from Sebastopol, Victoria, Reynolds ...